I've been tagged

I've Been Tagged

8 Shows I Watch:

1. Sporting events
2. Sportscenter

3. The Hills

4. Sex and the City

5. Bones

6. House

7. What Not to Wear

8. Friends

8 Restaurants That I Like To Eat At:
1. Café Rio
2. Texas Roadhouse
3. The Yardhouse (not in Utah)
4. In and Out (again, not in Northern Utah)
5. Zupas
6. Rumbi Grill
7. Jambo Express
8. Paradise Bakery

8 Things I Did Today:
1. Taught school
2. Had a team meeting
3. Did an IEP meeting with a parent
4. Raced home
5. Did an ENTIRE assignment that should have taken 3 weeks in 2 hours!!! BOO YAH!!!
6. Ate squash and crackers
7. Updated my blog (sort of)
8. took a shower

8 Things I Am Looking Forward To:
1. School to be over next week!
2. Christmas break at my elementary school
3. Finding out who Utah will play in their BCS bowl game
4. Christmas
5. Utah basketball starting up again
6. A vacation perhaps in a few weeks to Arizona??? Crossing my fingers
7. A wedding???
8. Heather getting home

8 Things On My Wish List:
1. Good grades in school
2. Utah going to the Fiesta Bowl
3. Utah winning their bowl game
4. A ring...
5. The weekend
6. The Utes to be successful in basketball
7. People to actually come out and support the basketball team
8. A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

8 People I Tag:
1. Stevie
2. Kate
3. Tracy
4. Lori
5. Cami
6. Nicole
7. and...
8. anyone else who feels they need to do this

Husband...err Boyfriend Quiz

This is suppose to be for your husband, but he is not that yet so we will make it my Boyfriend quiz

Boyfriend Quiz: How well do you know your boyfriend? Answer these questions about him and find out:

1. Sitting in front of the TV, what's on the screen? Anything. Usually sports, Seinfeld, Friends, Family Guy, or the History Channel

2. You're out to eat; what kind of dressing does he get on his salad? No dressing. He does not eat any dressing and/or sauce.

3. What's one food he doesn't like? I mentioned it above, sauce and dressings

4. You go out to a bar. What does he order? He does not go to bars. He gets water or sprite though at restaurants

5. Where did he go to high school? Alta High

6. What size shoe does he wear? 10

7. If he was to collect anything, what would it be? Movies, he already has over 300. And we will throw guns into this picture.

8. What is his favorite type of sandwich? Turkey

9. What would this person eat everyday if he could? A good steak, stuffing, and chocolate

10. What is his favorite cereal? I am pretty sure Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but he does not eat it very often

11. What would he never wear? Hahaha a Utah Sweatshirt

12. What is his favorite sports team? BYU, the Jazz, the Chargers, the Red Sox, and Real Salt Lake. I think I hit every major sport

13. Who will he vote for? He DID vote for McCain. There is no way on earth he would ever vote for Obama, we would have broken up

14. Who is his best friend? Well besides me...his brother Jason, Heather Nibley and Andrew

15. What is something you do that he wishes you wouldn't do? Cheer for the Utes...


16. How many states has he lived in? Utah and Colorado

17.What is his heritage? I can not think of it for the life of me right now, I know his ancestors changed their name so all of the Dahl's in the world are not related to him in any way.

18. You bake him a cake for his birthday, what kind of cake? Chocolate, but lets be honest, I would not bake it. He would prefer I just go buy him one.

19. Did he play sports in high school? Soccer

20. What could he spend hours doing? Watching movies, playing his computer games, and looking at his guns, the ones that shoot, not his arms.

21. Does he belong to any men's organizations? The "Brian is the bomb" club

Holiday Tag

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Top 3 Favorite Vacations

1. Hawaii

2. Disneyland

3.a My cruise to the Caribbean

b. Pasadena (aka Trip O'Fun)


Top 3 Favorite Flowers

1. gerber daisies, preferably red

2. lillies

3. hibiscus

Top 3 Favorite "comfort" foods

1. cereal

2. chewy cherry slices from Cabella's

3. oreo's

Top 3 places to shop

1. Target! My favorite place ever

2. Barnes and Noble

3. The Utah Bookstore

Top 3 opinions about Halloween

1. I like the feel of it, but I hate being scared. I hate haunted houses, won't go. I hate scary movies, won't watch.

2. I am starting to really enjoy coming up with costumes each year with Brian.

3. I LOVE LOVE LOVE seeing my kids at school dressed up and the trick or treater's

Top 3 opinions about thanksgiving

1. Oh its amazing!!! Family, food and football...the 3 fabulous F's

2. It is the start of the the Christmas season

3. The mood depends on the previous Saturday...win or loss against BYU. We prefer a W!!! Makes for a more enjoyable dinner table conversation

Top 3 opinions about Christmas

1. The music! It is my favorite thing about Christmas

2. I love the feelings, the decorations and the smells...but please don't start them until AFTER Thanksgiving

3. I hate the stress of finding presents, but I love the feeling of seeing my family and friends open their gifts. It makes it worth it each year. Oh and I love seeing what Brian gets me, every year is amazing!


Top 3 things you look forward to in the week

1. The weekend for football

2. The nights I don't have school so I can be with Brian

3. Going to sleep each night

Top 3 events happening this week

1. Halloween Party on Friday! And as a bonus, I took the day off from school!

2. Utah vs. New Mexico on Saturday

3. Its going to sound funny, but a class I am taking on Asperger's Syndrome Thursday night. I know I am a dork

I tag Heidi, Stevie and Nicole

Moab

This fall has been a different one for me. I have gone back to school to get my teaching license and for part of my masters, I am teaching part time at Sprucewood Elementary in Sandy, and I am still teaching a few classes of gymnastics each week. With all of that, it was really nice to get out of town this weekend for a quick little four wheeling trip to Moab. We left Friday morning and spent the afternoon exploring a ghost town down by Green River. It was so amazing to see all of the old buildings and the think that people use to live there.







This was an old rail way shack thingy. I might looked scared in the picture...ok I really was terrified because it was so quiet that I thought at any moment something was going to come kill us.





This was the general store at one point. I was a little less terrified because I had my man by my side but still, pretty creepy.






After spending the afternoon at the ghost town, we met up with the rest of Brian's family and found Crystal Gyeser. It apparently only explodes times a day, but someone told me the water inside was boiling, so of course I did not have the guts to look for myself. With my luck, it would have exploded in my face. We called it a night after that and set up camp.






The next day was a little more exciting. We woke up to it starting to rain, we had to get right into the cars and start the day early. It rained, and rained, and rained all day which made four wheeling a little more tricky. Luckily most of the time we were on slick rock. But we did have a few getting stuck issues that caused the men to be out in the rain, cold and mud for over an hour. After that, and then proceeding to get lost of the top of a mountain with cliffs on either side, we decided it would be best to just drive into Moab and get a hotel for the night. We spent the night walking up and down Moab, eating pizza, and watching some much needed football. It ended up being an ok night after a drama filled day.






Here are Brian and I fighting the rain at a super cool canyon. Below is a better picture of what the canyon looked like.

Sunday we spent the day at Arches National Park. I had never been there in all my years of living in Utah, so it was a really cool day. I was in awe at all of the beautiful landscapes, mountain formations, and of course the Arches. It was absolutely incredible to see.

Here I am at Delicate Arch. It is actually to the right but this was the view. It was breath taking.






Delicate Arch. It was absolutely amazing. So much better than the pictures. It made the hike up the mountain totally worth it.







This was probably my favorite parts of the weekend. There is a trail that only 4-wheel drive cars can go on that takes up up to Tower Arch. It was such a fun trail to ride on and the ending result was awesome!!! Overall, it was a super fun weekend and a quick little trip out of the city.

VOTE VOTE VOTE

I know some of you might not like him, but the team down south's coach is currently in first place. We don't want that. So click on the link below and go support Kyle! GO UTES!!!

Kyle Whittingham

So Long Sweet Summer

So as you can tell from my title, I am wishing a goodbye to summer and the happiness it brings into my life. Yes, I have been back in school teaching now since July 28, but I was still able to enjoy the wonderful outdoors at night and on the weekends. With the drop of temperature over the past week or so, I have come to the realization that fall is here and winter is not far behind.

Now don't get me wrong, I love Fall time. Football, cooler temperatures, the beautiful mountains, and tons of holidays. But there is just something about summer that makes me happy. Maybe because I was born in the summer I don't know. But even though I love fall, a little part of me gets sad this time every year. So here is a few of my favorite moments from this summer...


My Birthday was a success as always. Brian never fails to surprise me with amazing gifts. He always knows exactly what I want without me even saying a word.

We celebrated our 2 year anniversary up at Silver Lake. Brian took me up there for our first date and we had not been back since. If you know the story, you know why...but it is one of our favorite places to be.
I tried rock climbing and found out that I really like it. Hopefully I can get more into this next year with a little more time and resources (aka money haha)
We spent a lot of our time hanging out with good friends. Here we are with Andrew and Keri at the Bees Game. Oh we attended quite a few of those also. The fireworks were amazing each time.
We spent a fun weekend at my cabin down at Fish Lake. Brian found he has a long lost love for fishing. I on the other hand, spent an entire day on the boat and didn't even get a bite. I was the only one who came out a failure. But it was still fun.

Brian bought a new Four-Runner and we found that we love to go off-roading. We are hoping to visit Moab and some other cool trails this fall. Oh we also spent a couple weekends camping where we went fishing and kayaking.

In the end, I had an AMAZING summer with the the person I love more than anyone else. And I can't wait for all of the fun times ahead. Love you Bri!!! In the meantime, bring on Football!!! GO UTES!!!

Tag...hey at least it is something new

What were you doing...

10 years ago...1998

I was in a super weird stage of my life. I was in between 7th and 8th grade. I hit my growth spurt so gymnastics was starting to get hard. But pretty much I was just trying to stay normal with my friends, Cami and Sara (school) and my gym friends. It did not really work that well because we were pretty weird. Not my favorite time in my life, but I did have fun and have some great inside jokes from it. "Can I have a cheeto?" Cami will understand

5 years ago...2003

I was transitioning from SLCC to the U and I was so excited. I joined Lambda Delt and it was probably the decision that changed my life. I met my best friends, and they are the ones who will be my friends for my entire life. And I finally found that I could come out of my shell and learn to function on my own. It was a crucial time of life that has shaped me into the person I am today.

5 months ago...March

I was working at Escalante Elementary. Since then I have started at a new school as a special ed teacher, been to Hawaii, and turned 24!!!

5 things on my to do list tomorrow...

1) Wish Brian a Happy Birthday!!! 2) Go to school 3) wrap Bri's presents 4) go to dinner for his bday 5) Have fun!


5 things I would do if I was suddenly a billionaire...

1) Buy a house 2) Give some money to my family 3) Pay off debts 4) Travel...once school was over in a year. 5) Donate to MDA

5 bad habits...

1) playing with my hair 2) talking too loud 3) biting my nails 4) eating junk food 5) getting too emotional

5 places I've lived

Pretty boring...i have never lived anywhere but where I live now

I tag anyone who wants to do this!